Matt,
Willie Watson did the design, and I believe that Jack Neville may have had a hand in it as well. It is just over 6600 yards, par 71, Slope of 130. I have played it probably 25 times, and it has just grown on me over time. I wouldn't call it a great course, but a very good one that has some interesting features.
Clearly length isn't its main obstacle, it is the very small and severe greens. However it has a couple of beasts 11 at 440ish and 13 at 230 over water) It is sneaky tough. Holes 1 and 8 are elevated and built into hills, with as severe a back to front cant as I have ever seen on a golf course. Anything above the hole is just dead. There is some quirk (drainage ditch down the left side of number Two, huge trees in the middle of the fairway on 18)
My favorite holes are 6 ,a 185 yard downhill par three, 14 a 330 yard par 4, and 11, a 440 yard par four. Six is surrounded by bunkers with a severe green tilting from right to left. It takes a very well struck iron to hold the green. Anything right bounce towards the green but leaves an impossible up and down. Foe higher handicappers, the play is short left, with a chip up the hill. Fourteen has OB right, and bunkers on both sides of the fairway, at the 100 to 125 yard marker. An iron layup short of these bunkers leaves a shortish iron in to a tiny, narrow green surrounded by bunkers on both sides as well as in front. If you try to hit driver, the fairway gets very tight in front of the green, as as the course normally plays very firm and fast, keeping it on the green is nearly impossibile, as the green slopes gently away from the player. A great match play hole that I play every year in a Scotch tournament.
Eighteen has these old trees (white oaks, maybe, I'm not a knowledgable tree guy) right in the middle of the fairway. It is about 480 yards I think, and it gives you some choices. You can go left around them, low under them, or high over them if you want to take a chance and have an iron into a well guarded green with OB 10 yards off the back. Again, a great match play finishing hole.
The most interesting part of the course is its greensites. It was built in 1914, so obviously very little earth was moved. The greens were built on top of little hills and in little knolls. Some slant towards you and some away from you, and a number are surrounded by bunkers all the way around. A great members club, in a VERY upscale old community. I have yet to break 76 (I'm a 4) after 25 or so plays with my on ball. Even with the advance in technology, small, firm well protected greens still make the course difficult to score on.
Worth a look see if you have time on your way from Sac to the city...